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A little surprise for ya Wayne... [message #41924] Mon, 14 July 2003 23:21 Go to next message
Adam is currently offline  Adam
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I don't know if you remember, but over a year ago we had a discussion on this board about Pi aligning four Seas Excel 7" drivers for use as midbass units in my car. We also discussed using it as a small subwoofer enclosure in someone's porsche I believe.

I completely forgot we ever had this discussion until thylantyr reminded me.

Anyway, I thought I would treat you to the results, thirteen months later.
http://enclave.hypermart.net/bird/P0009391.JPG

Later pics with light rings installed
http://enclave.hypermart.net/bird/speaker lights 006.jpg
http://enclave.hypermart.net/bird/speaker lights 005.jpg
http://enclave.hypermart.net/bird/speaker lights 007.jpg

The LED light ring is a pure special effect..
http://enclave.hypermart.net/bird/speaker lights 002.jpg

While I had long lost your original pi alignment for these drivers... I returned to my box designed software just a couple short months ago and did a custom box design myself, with trial and error until I got the best curve. The final result was a 0.66 cuft box per side (0.33 cuft per driver), with a box tuning of 48 Hz, with a single 3" diameter port. Those results virtually identical to what your program spit out a year earlier, other than the small deviation in box tuning.

The boxes sound fantastic... Midbass output is first rate. The best midbass performance I've heard out of any driver, period. The car sounds incredible, I wish you could hear it. MORE than worth the $1,100 dollars for the drivers and materials, and 12+ month wait... I've been running them for over a month, but I didn't think to hit ya up until now.

Adam

Great job! [message #41930 is a reply to message #41924] Tue, 15 July 2003 09:07 Go to previous message
Wayne Parham is currently offline  Wayne Parham
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That's really sweet! I like the custom cabinet you did, and how you matched it to the color of the car. Nice touch. And I'll bet it does sound great. I'd like to have a little pair of one π's made with that woofer. They're great for the car or a bedroom sound system, I'll bet. A handful of them for surrounds would be mighty nice too.

The threads where we discussed these last year are "Wayne, what do you think about this?" and "Wayne-Now you've seen and heard......."

Those are really neat speakers. Great job!

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